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A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts the health IT market in North America will increase from $21.9 billion last year to $31.3 billion in 2017, driven in part by the growing need for administrative solutions and clinical IT. Factors such as the lack of HIT professionals, interoperability concerns and the rise in patient data breaches were cited as key barriers to market growth.

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Community health centers, renal dialysis facilities and other providers in Maryland may soon be reimbursed for delivering telemedicine services under the state's expanded Medicaid program. The project, which initially covered only telemedicine services related to mental health consultation, is intended to improve care delivery in rural areas and other sites with a recognized lack of specialists.

A TechNavio report predicts that increased adoption of remote patient monitoring tools will drive the worldwide telemedicine market to an 18.9% compound annual growth rate through 2016. Leading the market are companies such as Philips Healthcare and Agfa-Gevaert.

Health care chief information officers likely won't be the most popular C-suite executives next year as they prioritize efforts to comply with stage 2 meaningful use, ICD-10, HIPAA audits and other federal mandates, writes Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO Dr. John Halamka. With next year's health IT agenda already set by the government, CIOs have little or no flexibility to focus on the discretionary IT needs of departments within their organizations, he writes.

President Barack Obama was informed about major problems with the Affordable Care Act online insurance marketplaces only in the first couple of days after the Oct. 1 rollout, and he did not know about them beforehand, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday in an interview with CNN's Sanjay Gupta. Postponing the beginning of the enrollment period wasn't an option given the optimism about HealthCare.gov's launch, she said. The White House ideally would have had more time to test and develop the website, she said. "But we didn't have five years," she said.

The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), Methodist Hospital, HealthCAWS and Northern Kentucky University leaders will discuss practical approaches to accelerating patient engagement in eHealth. The program, which begins at 12 p.m. ET on Oct. 31, will highlight the importance and impact of effectively engaging patients and their families, set forth a road map for defining patient engagement in eHealth, discuss an organizational diagnostic readiness assessment tool designed to help organizations accelerate their progress toward consumer engagement in eHealth, and provide a real-life example of how stakeholders in Kentucky are leveraging these tools. This webinar is open to all CHIME members, CHIME affiliates and CHIME Foundation Firm representatives. Register online for this event.